Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American justice: the jailhouse snitch. Over the past decade White -- whose rap sheet lists crimes ranging from purse snatching to kidnaping -- has testified against at least a dozen California inmates who he claimed confessed their guilt to him. With information he provided, authorities have unearthed the bodies of murder victims and prosecuted a prison gang leader for murder. In exchange, lawmen accorded him special privileges, including early release, during his frequent returns to the slammer. "Every time I come in here," White boasts, "I inform and get back...
...enforcement officials looked on, White demonstrated how easy it is for a would-be stoolie to concoct a false confession simply by using a telephone in the prison chaplain's office. Identifying himself as a bail bondsman, White called the sheriff's document-control center and got an accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself as a deputy D.A. to obtain names of witnesses and the prosecutors handling the case. He rang up the coroner's office -- this time masquerading as a cop -- and was provided with...
...order to testify, Nussbaum, 46, was forced to come to terms with the horror of her ordeal. Originally police charged her, along with Steinberg, with second-degree murder. Prosecutors dropped the charge after becoming convinced she had been so battered psychologically and physically that she could not have participated in beating Lisa. After months of intensive psychiatric care, Nussbaum agreed to testify for the prosecution. On the eve of her testimony, Nussbaum made what her psychiatrist calls a "final declaration of independence" by slapping Steinberg with a $3 million lawsuit for the decade of abuse she allegedly suffered...
These are scenes from an epidemic of homicidal violence that has turned the streets of many American cities into virtual war zones. With a month left before year's end, all-time murder records have already been set in several cities, and the bloody pace shows no signs of slowing down. In New York City homicides are up 18%, in Houston 44% and in the nation's capital an appalling...
...Weissman '88-'89, head of Harvard Watch, a group organized by consumer advocate Ralph Nader to monitor the University's corporate activities, said the University is "investing in companies marketing devices of mass murder...